Scales, Arpeggios, and Chords for the Minimalist Guitarist
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Most guitar books ask you to learn more. This one asks how little you can get away with.
Five patterns per scale, five positions per arpeggio, a chord vocabulary that never stops growing. Accumulation is the standard advice and it works right up until you're in a situation where playing everything you know is the wrong thing to do.
So this runs the other way: minimal patterns, minimal variations, and the smallest piece of information that still gets you around the whole fretboard. The shortcuts don't come from leaving things out — they come from exploiting the quirks of standard tuning, the places where it repeats and the places where it doesn't, so one small thing covers ground that normally takes five.
Why you'd want less: a trio where the bass and drums need room. A singer you shouldn't be competing with. A part where two well-placed chord stabs are the entire rhythm guitar. And because one scale pattern used well is more melodic than five patterns used to run between positions.
Aimed at intermediate players carrying more material than they can actually use.
PDF. Instant download.
Five patterns per scale, five positions per arpeggio, a chord vocabulary that never stops growing. Accumulation is the standard advice and it works right up until you're in a situation where playing everything you know is the wrong thing to do.
So this runs the other way: minimal patterns, minimal variations, and the smallest piece of information that still gets you around the whole fretboard. The shortcuts don't come from leaving things out — they come from exploiting the quirks of standard tuning, the places where it repeats and the places where it doesn't, so one small thing covers ground that normally takes five.
Why you'd want less: a trio where the bass and drums need room. A singer you shouldn't be competing with. A part where two well-placed chord stabs are the entire rhythm guitar. And because one scale pattern used well is more melodic than five patterns used to run between positions.
Aimed at intermediate players carrying more material than they can actually use.
PDF. Instant download.